<p>Please tell me what my chances are and I will tell you what your chances are. Thanks.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.7 (unweighted), 4.2 (unweighted)
SAT: 730 reading 770 math 730 writing (2230 total)
SAT II: 790 Math II 750 Bio 750 Chem
Classes: AP History (5), AP Biology (5), AP Calc BC (5/5), AP Lang (4)
Classes senior year: AP Psych, AP Macro, AP Phys C, AP Prob Stat, AP Lang</p>
<p>Extra Curricular:
- Over 100 hours volunteering at hospital
- About 50 hours volunteering at church
- About 50 hours volunteering at nursing home
- Volunteered at library
- Member of rescue squad
- EMT certified
- Graduated UMDNJ mini med school with honors
- Shadowed Physician
- Observed emergency deparpment at Robert Wood
- Working at a grocery market
- Trying to become heavily involved in big charity organization and spread awareness/raise money
- Debate Team</p>
<p>Awards
National Honor Society
Math Honor Society
Science Honor Society</p>
<p>I just wanted to know what my chances for getting into the biomed programs at UPenn, JHU, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Tufts, BU, and my chances for getting accepted into the med programs at Rutgers (7 year w/ UMDNJ), NYU (7 year), PSU (6/7 year), Columbia.</p>
<p>Your academics are pretty good although your GPA is a bit on th low side. SATs and AP Grades are excellent as well. Your ECs are a bit dry though, but still pretty decent. Um, not to be rude but Honor Societies don’t truely count as Awards (at least not to Ivies like Harvard and Princeton). Ivies look for people who stand out and although your credentials are great you don’t seem to stand out. Ivies are a reach but by all means go for it. Tufts, BU, and NYU are all matches.</p>
<p>And thanks rosebuds, I know my chances for Ivies are kinda slim considering I really don’t stand out much. But how do I stand on Hopkins and Cornell and the med programs? Because I feel my SAT scores are good enough for those programs and my GPA, although a little lower than I would like, wouldn’t be too much of a problem, but most of my classes are APs and whatever remaining is honors. What I’m concerned about is whether my extra stuff (awards, extra curriculars) that make me stand out are good enough or not. I know for ivies its not great, but is it good enough for a 6/7 year program as I listed above and the non-ivy biomed programs (JHU, Cornell, Chicago, BU, etc.)?</p>
<p>Your ECs are pretty good considering you want to go to a Med Program. BTW, Med Programs are extremely expensive. If You don’t want to spend the years out of school in debt, I would suggest just going to a 4-Year University,then Med School. But thats just my opinion. Your SAT score is good but many Ivy and top school applicants have scores of 2100+. I’m not saying your score is low just that it isn’t something to fall back on. Your awards are all Honor Societies which is good but I bet that anyone who is applying to the ivies has grades good enough to be in an honor society. Have you ever qualified for National Merit or AP Scholar those are both awards. By standing out with ECs I’m talking about working in an area you are most passionate about, like Music, Art, Sports, etc. Your ECs are obviously medical, which is still pretty good but Colleges like the ones listed like to know that you have a life other than academics and such. To be Honest, Your chances are great its just that there are alot of amazing applicants and it can be a crap shot sometimes. You should take a look at the results threat of Ivy League Universities on CC to compare your stats to accepted and rejected applicants. Umm, do you mind Chancing Me as well. Thanks</p>
<p>Yeah thanks a lot for the input Rosebud. The Ivy League schools are my reach schools as of now, I’m probably going to pick maybe 2 or 3 of those and use them as my reach.</p>
<p>May I suggest 2 other schools to consider that are both excellent schools for your field of study:</p>
<p>Rice University
Wash U St Louis</p>
<p>These may be more realistic schools to shoot for given your GPA and SAT stats. Bear in mind, they may still be low reach schools for you, in my opinion, but both are quality schools with very high Ivy-caliber academic standards and applicant pools that reflect this. These schools are on par with JHU.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input jshain. Yeah, rice, wash u, bu, jhu, cornell, etc. are the colleges I’m really looking into. The ivies are my reaches right now, and I know that I’m underqualified for those schools. Could anyone tell me how I match up with JHU, Cornell, and BU because those are the schools I’m most interested in right now. </p>
<p>Also, I had a quick question if anybody could answer. I just went to collegeboard to search about the AP Scholar info. I got a 5 on three of my exams, and a 4 on the other. According to the criteria on collegeboard, does that make me an AP Scholar with Honors. And do colleges see that distinction, and if so do they take any weight on it? [AP:</a> Scholar Awards](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>Qualifying for an AP Scholar Award – AP Students | College Board)
Thats the link if anyone else is interested.</p>
<p>JHU~Medium Reach, Your ECs help
Cornell~Medium Reach, Seems to match your academics
BU~Most likely Accepted</p>
<p>I do believe that makes you a Scholar with Honors. You should have recieved a certificate in the mail (IDK). Yes some colleges do weigh the amount of APs you take and what you got on them. Anyone who is applying to an Ivy probably has 4-5 APs with scores of 4s or 5s so it probably wouldn’t stand out as much as you would think. I’m sure though that JHU, Cornell, and BU do see the distinction and it will always help on any app.</p>